The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
2 PM ET The Beginner's Meeting
Hosted by Mike Creech
A friendly introduction to the Sensemakers Club designed to help new members feel comfortable and connected.
3 PM ET Testing Sensemaking the Game
Hosted by Abby Covert
A playtest session for Sensemaking the Game, the Sensemakers Club's own card game currently in development.
2 PM ET The Analog Leap
Hosted by Uday Gajendar
A fast-moving creative exploration of analog visual making, where we'll engage with paper and pen to unlock your creativity and embrace an experimentalist attitude.
2 PM ET Design Jam
Hosted by Holly Schroeder & Abby Covert
A hands-on design jam for members and leaders to collaboratively explore and shape the future of the Sensemakers Club through a working session focused on iteration and shared ownership.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Facilitation
Hosted by Shelby Bower & Alan Dooley
A vibrant group exploring the various perspectives and contexts of effective facilitation.
12 PM ET Sensemakers Salon 2026
A free, public event bringing the Sensemakers community together for a day of talks, conversation, and connection.
What’s going on?
Week of May 11, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week's six sessions covered a lot of ground: the club worked through an urgent transcript management question in Making Sense of Content + Design (with a follow-up takeover planned for AI Field Notes on May 18); Mindfulness & Modeling opened with a guided meditation before exploring when acceptance creates more possibility than resistance; Knowledge Management & Governance Support asked what gets lost when we remove all friction from learning; Diagram Critique went deep on one IA project's audience management, information density, and the distinction between site maps and navigation; Career Transitions got frank about weathering the AI winter and why human judgment still matters; and What Is the 'People Part' of Information Architecture? argued that the timeless part of IA is the people, then dug into masking, stakeholder approaches, and what it costs to perform versions of ourselves at work.
Themes from last week:
- The Real Cost of Removing Friction
- Masking, Acceptance, and the Exhaustion of Adaptation
- The People Problem Behind Every System
SPECIAL EVENT
May 15, 2026
12 to 3 PM ET
Sensemakers Salon
The Sensemakers Salon is a FREE half-day of soulful activities, mutual aid workshops & discussions that matter to our members, but open to the public.